a mountain of paperwork

A mountain of paperwork was not what he needed at the moment.

Then you have this whole new mountain of paperwork to do.

I'm sure I have a mountain of paperwork at the library, and it'll take a while to catch up.

This in turn causes a mountain of paperwork for Toby.

But that would've meant interviewing everyone, taking statements, a mountain of paperwork.

The Bishop pushed aside a mountain of paperwork to welcome us.

No doubt it was still there, buried beneath mountains of paperwork.

"Please, tell me you're dying to be entertained so I can get out from under this mountain of paperwork."

Managers report that it takes weeks, if not months, to buy or sell a stock, and requires a mountain of paperwork.

Cases can last several days and involved mountains of paperwork and expert evidence.

Thus far the chase had not provided half enough fun to compensate for the mountain of paperwork ahead.

There are literally mountains of paperwork in the back offices."

"In the past, my report would have gotten lost in a mountain of paperwork.

She looked up from a mountain of paperwork, and she nodded solemnly.

I sat down at the desk I was using and started to look through the mountain of paperwork that had already accumulated.

There'll be mountains of paperwork, and if something goes wrong, it's my rank that'll get brought up before a corporate hearing."

Ryan was incongruously trapped in his real job for a week, finishing up a mountain of paperwork.

Even critics of the agency acknowledge, however, that it needed more time to process what was expected to be a mountain of paperwork.

Mr. Rodgers and others, however, have managed to carve out a business from just such a mountain of paperwork.

He filled out mountains of paperwork for his requests for relevant documents.

The mountain of paperwork and liability involved in driving into Guatemala deters most travelers.

Judging from the mountain of paperwork on her dining-room table, there was a lot of work to do.

An engineer moaned about endless meetings, mountains of paperwork and vicious office politics.

He spent yesterday morning showing dewy-eyed tenants their new homes and negotiating the mountain of paperwork.

Parents have to fill out mountains of paperwork to prove their residency; investigators make multiple visits to students' homes.